Psychotherapy or psychoanalysis?

SATSUMA wrote: »

Why would a person be more suitable for one type of therapy as opposed to another?

As a client I don’t know I’d say it’s individual but my own experience is that I did psychotherapy with a good gestalt trained therapist before I moved to a psychoanalyst - it was for practical reasons as the therapist I was seeing was over an hour away and I didn’t realize when I decided to get someone closer to me that the person I chose was actually psychoanalyst. It turned out to be the best thing ever for me - it’s been a few years now but the process with the analyst has really helped me to work through a lot of stuff in a very real way cause the therapy relstionship with the analyst is like a Petri dish to experiment or thrash through things again. It’s msde me really aware of how my subconscious trips me up which has been really helpful.

I started off sitting face to face with the analyst but after a few months I lay down on the couch and that’s very freeing - we talk about everything from money to masturbstion and it’s a kinda unique space.